Anheuser-Busch Pulls Drinking Game from Market

ST. LOUIS - Anheuser-Busch is discontinuing a national promotion called "Bud Pong," a drinking game the company said was supposed to be played with water. Participants in the game, which is played with a ping pong ball and plastic cups, often were drinking beer as they lost points. Anheuser-Busch said the game's instructions call for water to be consumed during play instead of beer, which is the company's main product. Spokeswoman Francine Katz said Tuesday that the game will no longer be promoted because it was misused.